Grigori Aleksandrov
Directing
Born January 22, 1903 in Yekaterinburg, Russian Empire
Grigori Vasilyevich Aleksandrov or Alexandrov (original family name was Mormonenko; 23 January 1903 - 16 December 1983) was a prominent Soviet film director who was named a People's Artist of the USSR in 1947 and a Hero of Socialist Labor in 1973. He was awarded the Stalin Prizes for 1941 and 1950. Initially associated with Sergei Eisenstein, with whom he worked as a co-director, screenwriter and actor, Aleksandrov became a major director in his own right in the 1930s, when he directed Jolly Fellows and a string of other musical comedies starring his wife Lyubov Orlova.
Filmography
Volga-Volga
Sergei Eisenstein: Mexican Fantasy
Himself
Lyubov Orlova
¡Qué Viva México!
Self
Starling and Lyre
General (uncredited)
I Don't Want to Be Filmed
режиссёр Александров
Ten Days That Shook the World
The Magic Beam
Self (archive footage)
Companion of the Queen
Russian Souvenir
Sergei Eisenstein
Self (archive footage)
Velikoye proshchaniye
Martyn Borulya
Man of Music
Meeting on the Elbe
Spring
Twins
Guilty Without Guilt
Days and Nights
Girl No. 217
Native Fields
Six O'Clock in the Evening After the War
Jubilee
Moscow Skies
Ivan Nikulin: Russian Sailor
A Family
Submarine T-9
The Shining Path
Time in the Sun
Volga - Volga
Circus
Jolly Fellows
Death Day
Thunder Over Mexico
Sentimental Romance
The Disaster in Oaxaca
Misery and Fortune of Woman
The General Line
The Girl from Distant River
October (Ten Days that Shook the World)
Battleship Potemkin
Chief Officer Giliarovsky
Strike
Factory Foreman
Glumov's Diary
Glumov 2